Shredded Land, 2010

This series is made from ‘Closure Maps of Jerusalem and the West Bank’, maps used since 2004 and which came to symbolize the complex reality of Jerusalem’s disputed boundaries.

Facing the political reality with a sense of helplessness, I could in contrast shred and mold new maps according to rules conceived during the working process. The resulting shredded maps series with their ludic Dadaist logic offered new fictional, at time gloomy, realities. On some of the maps barrier walls disappear, settlements proliferate or are brought back behind the Green Line. On other maps, symbols of the concrete political geography fade away together with the slow disintegration of borders, lines, checkpoints, settlements and villages.

Curators: Judith K. Brodsky & Ferris Olin The show, The Wounded Land Map Project: A Borderline Case (2004-2012) was part of the project, Fertile Crescent, Gender, Art, and Society, organised by Rutgers University ...